This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.
At the Toronto Cenotaph, November 11, 1977, feminists held their own Remembrance Day event, with placards that read “For every woman raped in every war”. In Brisbane, Australia, on Anzac Day, April 25, 2017, Yassmin Abdel-Magied posted on her Facebook page “LEST WE FORGET (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine…)” What happened next will be revealed during the intro. We will then watch a 2015 TED Talk by Yassmin, a Sudanese diaspora writer, broadcaster and award-winning social advocate (https://www.yassminam.com/). The TED talk is entitled ‘What does my headscarf mean to you?” a presentation that focuses on unconscious bias.
The talk was suggested by Helen Lenskyj, who will be providing the intro and an outro to the video and topic. Helen is a Toronto Oasis participant and Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, where she taught sociology.
Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/295589170/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!